22 NECTARINIA JOHNSTONI. 



belongs the bird referred to by Sir John Kirk thus (Ibis, 

 1864, p. 320) : " Nectarinia formosa. In Dr. Dickinson's collec- 

 tion. I have seen this bird but once, in a thick clump of 

 trees near the river Shire, during the rainy season. It is rare 

 in the region." In the same district Mr. Alexander Whyte 

 has collected three full plumaged males in June and July on 

 the Nyika Plateau and the Masuku Range, between 6,000 and 

 7,000 feet. 



The next most southern locality, I find for this species, is 

 Kilimanjaro where Sir Harry Johnston found it very abundant, 

 between 5,000 and 7,000 feet. 



Mr. Jackson collected in October a full plumaged male 

 at Sotik (0-35' S. lat., 35° 25' E. long.) which is the type of 

 N. geneigularis, and other specimens on the same day at 

 Lumbwa. In Shoa Antinori procured a full plumaged male 

 at Antotto in December, 1881, for which bird Count Salvadori 

 proposed the name of N. subfamosa. In the Abyssinian district 

 Lefebvre obtained specimens at Adoa, and according to Ruppell 

 it is plentiful in the province of Semien at an elevation of 

 12,000 feet. You Heuglin also met with it here and in the 

 province of Bergemeder at 10,000 to 14,000 feet, and heard it 

 singing in the shrubs up to the line of perpetual snow. He 

 found it generally in pairs or small parties in company 

 with N. tacazze, and assumed that it acquired its breeding 

 plumage a month or two later in May and June. 



The type of the species was killed in Abyssinia in August, 

 1856. 



Nectarinia johnstoni. 



Nectarinia johnstoni, Shelley, P. Z. S. 1885, p. 227, pi. 14 Kilimanjaro ; 



Reichen. Vog. Deutseh O. Afr. p. 213 ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1894, p. 121 



ML Kenia; Selat. t. c. p. 452 Mt. Kenia; Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 9 



(1896) ; Neum. J. f. o. 1898, pp. 241, 288. 

 Nectarinia deckeni, v. Hohnel in Teleki's Exped. Lake Rudolph (English 



ed.) I. p. 374 Mt. Kenia. 



